Lift Collection

"Factories, Refineries, Granaries Grow Thick" Ship Discharging Grain by Floating Pneumatic Elevators and Into Quayside Mill at Millwall Dock, 1937

The New Fashion Phaeton, February 22, 1776. Creator: Philip Dawe
The New Fashion Phaeton, February 22, 1776. Sic Itur ad Astra, (Thus one goes to the stars). Attributed to Philip Dawe

Elevator, Germany. Creator: Tom Artin
Elevator, Germany

Elevator Grille from the Manhattan Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1889-91. Copper-plated cast iron

Marquette Building: Elevator Grille Base, 1893 / 95. Creator: Holabird & Roche
Marquette Building: Elevator Grille Base, 1893/95

Elevator Grille, Fisher Building, 343 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1895 / 96
Upper Portion of Elevator Grille, Fisher Building, 343 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1895/96

In an Elevator, 1916. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
In an Elevator, 1916

Fodina argentea Sahlensis - A Silver Mine at Sala - I (from Aubry de La Mottrayes " Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa... " London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 33, no)

Scenes in St. Louis, 1874. Creator: Alfred Waud
Scenes in St. Louis, 1874. Hothouses and entrance to Shaws Gardens, the Equitable Insurance Building on Locust Street, Old Court House on Fourth Street, the High School on Olive Street

1909 Car being loaded on to ship at Boulogne. Creator: Unknown
1909 Car being loaded on to ship at Boulogne

1910 Mercedes being craned onboard ship. Creator: Unknown
1910 Mercedes being craned onboard ship

The horrible death of two electrians, 1929. Creator: Unknown
The horrible death of two electrians, 1929. L Horrible Mort de Deux Electriciens. Lift engineers are crushed to death in an industrial accident. Front cover of " Le Petit Journal Illustre"

Folkestone. The Beach and Lifts, late 19th-early 20th century. Leas Lift, a funicular railway in Folkestone, Kent, was originally installed in 1885

Regents Park, Marylebone, London, 1829
Interior view of the Colosseum, Regents Park, Marylebone, London, 1829; showing workmen, including painters suspended in cradles

Guys Hospital, Southwark, London, 1803. Artist: Samuel Rawle
View of the north front of Guys Hospital, Southwark, London, 1803. Depicts a figure being stretchered through the front gates

Ford Zodiac on an asymmetric lift, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1972. A Ford Zodiac Executive sits on an assymetric lift manufectured by Laycock Engineering

Elevator lobby, first floor, the Fraternity Clubs Building, New York City, 1924. Designed by Murgatroyd and Ogden in Renaissance Revival style

Trephination, 1593. Using an elevator to remove a piece of bone from the skull. Trephination as a therapeutic or magico-religious procedure dates back to Neolithic times

Elevator lobby, Chamber of Commerce Building, Newark, New Jersey, 1924
Elevator lobby with vaulted ceiling in dull gold, Chamber of Commerce Building, Newark, New Jersey, 1924. From The Architectural Forum Volume XLI. [Rogers and Manson, New York, 1924]

Floor plans, Chamber of Commerce Building, Newark, New Jersey, 1924. From The Architectural Forum Volume XLI. [Rogers and Manson, New York, 1924]

The well of the Roux Combaluzier elevator, Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889. When it opened for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, the Eiffel Tower had four elevators

The cliff lift at Bournemouth, Dorset, early 20th century

East Hill lift, Hastings, East Sussex, early 20th century

Clarks hydraulic lift, Bombay, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

The New-fashioned Phaeton, 1776. Sic itur ad astra - Thus do we reach the stars. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

The Peterborough Lift Lock, Ontario, Canada, c1920s. The Lift Lock is a boat lift on the Otonabee River. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 2nd series

Eiffel Tower elevator, 1889. Elevator built by Otis. An elevator car and one leg of the tower showing the elevator system with (1) hydraulic cylinder; (2) travelling multiplying pulleys; (3)

Steam-powered ice elevator, Hudson River near New York, USA, 1875. An elevator for raising blocks of ice from the river level into insulated storehouses where they would be stored for summer use

Leon Edouxs hydraulic passenger lift (elevator), 1887

Leon Edouxs elevators (lifts) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889
Elevators (lifts) by Leon Edoux for carrying passengers to the second and third levels of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889

Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. Artist: R Wormell
Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. The elevator is powered by an electric motor (A). From Electricity in the Service of Man by R Wormell. (London, 1890)

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